Tag Archives: Kate Winslet

The Regime. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Danny Webb, Andrea Riseborough, Guillaume Gallienne, Henry Goodman, David Bamber, Rory Keenan, Louie Mynett, Martha Plimpton, Stanley Townsend, Alasdair Hankinson, Michael Colgan, Patrick Fusco, Pippa Haywood, Hugh Grant.

Regimes never fall, they just undergo a personality change.

In truth all revolutions ultimately fail because the void they leave is too immense for anything other than the status quo to fill it; it is why you arguably only ever have extremes of government in so called democratic countries, never a middle of the road leadership, a third party truly doing anything other than playing to the conscious of the crowd.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Mountain Between Us. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Dermot Mulroney, Beau Bridges, Linda Sorensen, Vincent Gale, Marci T. House.

The Mountain Between Us is such that at times what we perceive is heroic and noble in ourselves can be considered as weak and ineffective by others. Our stance in the wake of calamity is not defined by what we were but who we are shown to be when the ordeal is over. It is a reminder that what stands between the mountains is not space or the yawning chasm but the chance to grow beyond what is real at the time.

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(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Triple 9, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Clifton Collins Jr., Casey Affleck, Gal Gadot, Teresa Palmer, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michelle Ang, Luis Da Silva Jr.

Corruption is one in which no one can truly escape unless they have found a way to shelter from the storm of everyday and the lure of greed and fear; everybody has a weakness, everybody has a secret in which they can be pushed to the point of crossing their own line of decency. It is a decency that unfortunately is missing in the film Triple 9.

Triple 9, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

The Dressmaker, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook, Judy Davies, Caroline Goodall, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Gyton Grantley, Shane Bourne, Barry Otto, Sacha Horler, Julia Blake, Shane Jacobson, Hayley Magnus, Alison Whyte, Geneviève Lemon, Terry Norris, Amanda Woodhams, Olivia Sprague, Mark Leonard Winter, Rachael Lorenz, Darcey Wilson, Rory Potter, Tracy Harvey, Roy Barker, Gregory Quinn, Simon Maiden, Grace Rosebirch, Lucy Moir, Jordan Mifsud, Sage Barreda.

There is nothing like watching elegant revenge on the big screen to stir the soul into believing that those who were mistreated by society will ultimately walk away with their heads held high and in fashionable taste.

The Dressmaker, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

A Little Chaos, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kate Winslet, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Ehle, Alan Rickman, Helen McCrory, Matthias Schoenaerts, Steven Waddington, Danny Webb, Adrian Schiller, Adrian Scarborough, Pauline Moran, Phyllida Law, Morgan Watkins, Henry Garrett, Alistair Petrie, Adam James.

There are films in which the abundance of talent on offer simply overwhelms the story line, the procession of acting nobility so engulfing, so crushing, that the film dies a thousand scripted deaths; it never truly lives up to the dignity envisioned off screen and the grace offered in the initial stages of casting. Thankfully this is not the issue when it comes to A Little Chaos.

A Little Chaos, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(606 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)